EP 0217001 A3 19881130 - INK JET PRINTER
Title (en)
INK JET PRINTER
Publication
Application
Priority
US 74986185 A 19850624
Abstract (en)
[origin: EP0217001A2] A rotary ink jet printer can print at high speed in black and white as well as in color using hot-melt inks. The printer includes a rotary print wheel which supports a plurality of ink jetters distributed around its periphery The jetters are divided into color groups with the jetters in each group drawing ink from a separate chamber of an ink reservoir with the different chambers containing different-colored inks. Each jetter can be aimed separately from all of the other jetters in the print wheel in a direction parallel to the rotary axis of the wheel as well as in a direction perpendicular thereto and tangent to the print wheel, enabling the jetters in the different groups during each revolution of the print wheel to print in a plurality of colors on a plurality of different lines of a recording medium advancing as a cylinder past the periphery of the print head. A mechanism for automatically aiming the jetters on the print wheel is also disclosed.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 2/13 (2006.01); B41J 2/145 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
B41J 2/145 (2013.01 - EP US); B41J 2/175 (2013.01 - EP US); B41J 2/211 (2013.01 - EP US)
Citation (search report)
- US 4591281 A 19860527 - HOWARD ROBERT [US], et al
- US 3823409 A 19740709 - CARRELL R
- DE 3315766 A1 19841031 - BBC BROWN BOVERI & CIE [DE]
- US 4287523 A 19810901 - THOMAS JACOB E, et al
- EP 0178883 A2 19860423 - EXXON RESEARCH ENGINEERING CO [US]
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE FR GB IT
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0217001 A2 19870408; EP 0217001 A3 19881130; CA 1256742 A 19890704; JP S62103150 A 19870513; US 4714936 A 19871222
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 86108458 A 19860620; CA 512156 A 19860623; JP 14799986 A 19860624; US 74986185 A 19850624